(Adopted July 2017)
The Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) developed a comprehensive Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain in June 2015. The Guidelines were subsequently adopted by the Bree Collaborative at the July 2015 meeting. This workgroup will design and carry out strategies to implement the Guidelines. This workgroup met from December 2015 to April 2020.
Supporting Materials
Opioid NDC include
Opioid NDC exclude
Letter from Health Care Authority Accepting Opioid Prescribing Metrics
Opioid Guideline Implementation Charter
Agency Medical Directors Group Interagency Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain
AMDG Guideline Summary
Opioid Guideline: Metrics Workgroup Members
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Chris Baumgartner | Director Prescription Monitoring Program | Washington State Department of Health |
| David Buchholz, MD | Medical Director | Premera Blue Cross |
| Gary Franklin, MD, MPH (Chair) | Medical Director | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Charissa Fontinos, MD | Deputy Chief Medical Officer | Washington State Health Care Authority |
| Deb Fulton-Kehoe, PhD, MPH | Epidemiologist | University of
Washington |
| Frances Gough, MD | Chief Medical Officer | Molina Healthcare |
| Dan Kent, MD | Chief Medical Officer | UnitedHealthcare |
| Kathy Lofy, MD | Chief Science Officer | Washington State Department of Health |
| Jaymie Mai, PharmD | Pharmacy Manager | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Mark Murphy, MD | Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine | MultiCare |
| Shirley Reitz, PharmD | Clinical Pharmacist Client Manager | OmedaRx, Cambia |
| Gregory Rudolph, MD | Addiction Medicine | Swedish Pain Services |
| Mark Stephens | President | Change Management Consulting |
| David Tauben, MD | Chief of Pain Medicine | University of Washington Medical Center |
| Gregory Terman MD, PhD | Professor | Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington |
| Michael Von Korff, ScD | Senior Investigator | Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute |